2016 Workshop on

Solutions for Maritime Situational

Awareness

(SIMSA 2016)

12th February 2016, Helsinki,

Finland

Maritime Research at FGI

Heidi Kuusniemi

Professor, Director

Department of Navigation and Positioning

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), www.fgi.fi

President

Nordic Institute of Navigation, www.nornav.org

2016 Workshop on

Solutions for Maritime Situational Awareness

(SIMSA 2016)

12th February 2016, Helsinki, Finland

• Governmental research institute for

geospatial information science and

technology

• Part of the National Land Survey of

Finland

• Under the Finnish Ministry of

Agriculture and Forestry

• Five departments

• Geodesy and Geodynamics

• Geoinformatics and Cartography

• Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry

• Navigation and Positioning

• Spatial Data Information Services

• Current staff: about 120

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI)

Key Research Areas of FGI

1. Reference Systems

• National coordinate, height and gravity

systems

• Nummela standard baseline and

Metsähovi research station

• Deformation networks (Nuclear safety)

• Photogrammetric test field

2. Changing Earth

• Land use change

• Land uplift and deformation

• Multitemporal remote sensing data

analysis

• Global gravity change

• Safety and environmental aspects

• Change of land topography

• Vegetation

3. Mobile Geomatics

• Mobile mapping

• GNSS technologies

• Indoor – outdoor navigation

• Smart mobile geospatial solutions

• Mobile GIS

4. Spatial Data Infrastructures

• Interoperable, standardized data services

• Harmonization and quality of geospatial

data

• Network-based processing services

• Use and usability of GI-data and

applications

• Visualization and cartographic

presentation

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI)

FGI’s Department of Navigation and Positioning • Current staff: 18, with 9 PhDs

• 9 international and 9 Finnish

• 7 different nationalities

• Three research groups:

• Satellite and Radio Navigation (SaRaNa)

• Sensors and Indoor Navigation (SINa)

• Intelligent Mobility and Geospatial Computing (IMGC)

• Also MARITIME

• A navigation laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment (signal simulators, roof antennas, repeaters, receivers and sensors)

Applications of

FinnRef for mobile

precise positioning

Context and situational

awareness

Indoor navigation and

sensor fusion

GNSS

Navilab

Intelligent mobility

FGI’s projects related to Maritime

• ARCSAT: Arctic Real-Time

Satellite Services for the Public

and Commercial End-Use

• Ice aware navigation for the

Arctic sea

• ESABALT: Enhanced Situational

Awareness to Improve Maritime

Safety in the Baltic

• STORMWINDS: Strategic and

Operational Risk Management for

Wintertime Maritime Transportation

System

• VORIC: Vessel Operations and Routing

in Ice Conditions

• FEGNOS: Finland’s EGNOS Monitoring

and Performance Evaluation

Ice-aware routing

• Is it possible to create an algorithm that generates optimal maritime

shipping routes, taking into account ice conditions and available ice

breaker assistance?

Photos by Tapio Nyman and the Canadian Coast Guard

What is needed for ice-aware routing?

1. Sea spatial model

2. Ship maneuverability model

3. Sea ice model

• Describes the sea ice conditions

at given point in space and time

4. Ship performance model

• Describes how the ship

performs as a function of ice conditions

• Also, takes into account possible ice

breaker assistance

5. A cost function (A*)

Ice-aware maritime route optimization in the Baltic Sea

Current route (AIS data)

ARCSAT optimized route

Speed near open-water speed

ice-breaker waypoints

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Helsinki

St. Petersburg

The Bay of Bothnia

The Gulf of Finland

The Baltic Sea

Source: Jakub Montewka, FGI

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Data collecting

* Oceanographic and

weather observations

forecasts, and analyses

* Route suggestions

• Icebreakers

• Merchant vessels

• Bridge integrators

• Authorities

• Ice service

• Logistics and port

operators

* Observations

* Engine power

* User needs

Other data sources: AIS, ice

breaker (IB) waypoints

Environmental and ship

models

Ice drift, ice thickness, ice

charts, iceberg monitoring

Route optimisation

Ship parameters

Data delivery

(internal, external)

Earth Observations •Cosmo-SkyMed

•Radarsat

•NOAA

•Modis

•Sentinel-1

Ice navigation support system V

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Enhanced Situational Awareness

to Improve Maritime Safety in the

Baltic (ESABALT)

Common software platform for the

crowdsourcing of maritime

information for the benefit of all

maritime stakeholders

www.esabalt.org

Crowdsourcing

24th European Navigation Conference - 2016

Helsinki, Finland, 30th May – 2nd June 2016

ENC 2016

www.enc2016.eu

Helsinki Finlandia Hall

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Full-paper submission: 28th February, 2016

(full-paper-review track)

Abstract Submission: 28th February, 2016

(abstract-review track)

Acceptance Notification: 4th April, 2016

Early Registration: 15th April, 2016

Exhibition and sponsorship packages via www.enc2016.eu

Intelligent

transport

systems

Indoor

navigation Challenges

in Arctic

navigation

GNSS, especially

European Galileo

Big Data and

localization

Maritime

navigation